{"id":253392,"date":"2026-07-28T01:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253392\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:28:16","slug":"cheesesteaks-cookies-and-ribs-how-philadelphia-staples-are-honoring-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253392\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesesteaks, cookies and ribs. How Philadelphia staples are honoring LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new cheesesteak order at Pat&#8217;s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia is paying tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/lebron-james-sixers-nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LeBron James<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The King James&#8221; cheesesteak includes Cooper Sharp, onions and cheese whiz. The Philly staple renamed the order to pay tribute to James soon after he announced he was signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/lebron-james-sixers-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sixers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to Philadelphia, LeBron,&#8221; Frank Olivieri, the owner of Pat&#8217;s King of Steaks, said.<\/p>\n<p>Other Philly businesses are joining in on the fun, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sweetlucys_bbq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sweet Lucy&#8217;s Smokehouse<\/a>\u00a0in Northeast Philadelphia is now offering James free ribs for life.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/isgropastries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Isgro Pastries<\/a>\u00a0in South Philadelphia created LeBron-themed cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Honeygrow is another business that offered James a freebie. Before signing, the restaurant posted that it would give him a free stir-fry if he signed with the team. The company later reacted to the news by joining the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbN2InohaSi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">viral Netflix documentary trend<\/a>\u00a0on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James has yet to accept the offer, but Honeygrow still decided to do a giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offered up 23 free stir-frys that day and we will probably do it a couple more times, so pay attention to social, and you will get stir fry on us,&#8221; Todd Miller, the senior vice president of marketing at Honeygrow, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From cheesesteaks to stir fry, Sixers Nation is now hoping James is hungry on and off the court.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new cheesesteak order at Pat&#8217;s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia is paying tribute to LeBron James.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18831,2327,69,71,70,645],"class_list":["post-253392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lebron-james","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}